ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2017
Maternal eating disorders and perinatal outcomes: A three-generation study in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.
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- Birth outcomes for women with pre-existing mental health problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of the clinical practice guidelines for the assessment, management and treatment of eating disorders during the perinatal period.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Literature on Eating Disorders During Pregnancy-Risk and Consequences for Mother and Child.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Eating Disorders in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Pooled it
- Eating disorders are associated with adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: a systematic review.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)Pooled it
- Differential trajectories of depression symptoms during pregnancy and prospective associations with postpartum eating disorder symptoms and cardiovascular health behaviors.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Investigating Relationships Between Genetic Risk, Childhood Maltreatment, and Eating Disorders in Women.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Dietary intake of women with and without eating disorder history from pregnancy to 3 years postpartum: a longitudinal analysis.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- A scoping review of eating disorder symptoms and mental health during the postpartum period: predictors, course, and consequences for mothers and infants.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Eating Disorders and Subthreshold Symptoms in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: an Overview of Recent Research and Future Directions for Researchers and Clinicians.Current psychiatry reports · 2026Review
- The Role of Social Media Usage in the Impact of Body Image on Disordered Eating Attitudes During the Third Trimester of Pregnancy.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- An evaluation of an online education module to improve clinician knowledge and management of eating disorders in the peripartum: a three-month follow-up.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review of Neurodevelopmental, Psychiatric, and Behavioral Consequences of Preterm Birth.Cureus · 2025Review
- Adverse Neonatal Outcomes Among Children Born to Mothers Eating Disorders: A Register-Based Cohort Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Article
- Development and evaluation of an online education module to improve clinician knowledge and management of eating disorders in the peripartum: a pre-post survey study.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Mental and physical health in children of women with a history of anorexia nervosa.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Maternal Eating Disorders, Body Mass Index, and Offspring Psychiatric Diagnoses.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Psychiatric visits during the postpartum year in women with eating disorders who continue or discontinue antidepressant treatment in pregnancy.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Maternal Over- and Malnutrition and Increased Risk for Addictive and Eating Disorders in the Offspring.Nutrients · 2023Review
- The complex interplay between psychosocial and biological factors in pregorexia nervosa - a rapid review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Previous studies of the relationship between maternal eating disorders and adverse perinatal outcomes have failed to control for familial transmission of perinatal phenotypes, which may confound the reported association. In a unique design afforded by the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study and Medical Birth Registry of Norway, we linked three generations through birth register records and maternal-reported survey data to investigate whether maternal eating disorders increase risk after parsing out the contribution of familial transmission of perinatal phenotypes. The samples were 70,881 pregnancies in grandmother-mother-child triads for analyses concerning eating disorder exposure during pregnancy and 52,348 for analyses concerning lifetime maternal eating disorder exposure. As hypothesized, eating disorders predicted a higher incidence of perinatal complications even after adjusting for grandmaternal perinatal phenotypes. For example, anorexia nervosa immediately prior to pregnancy was associated with smaller birth length (relative risk = 1.62; 95% CI [1.20, 2.14]), bulimia nervosa with induced labor (relative risk = 1.21; 95% CI [1.07, 1.36]), and binge-eating disorder with several delivery complications, larger birth length (relative risk = 1.25; 95% CI [1.17, 1.34]), and large-for-gestational-age (relative risk = 1.04; 95% CI [1.01, 1.06]). Maternal pregravid body mass index and gestational weight mediated most associations. Our results support that exposure to eating disorders increases the risk for negative health outcomes in pregnant women and their babies. (PsycINFO Database Record
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